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  • Lleyton Hewitt pays for moan over foot-faults

    6/27/08 11:07 AM | Johan Lindahl
    - Lleyton Hewitt returned to classic bad-boy mode this week at Wimbledon and paid the price with a wrist-slap $1,000 fine for moaning about foot fault calls.

    The 2002 champion copped the sanction for unsportsmanlike behaviour after giving an official a visual piece of his mind in the wake of being called repeatedly for foot faults at one end of the court.

    The chair umpire cautioned the Aussie, with Hewitt particularly down on one offending sideline judge.Hewitt's tap of a ball towards the official apparently went over the behavior boundary, drawing the warning.

    “I just tapped the ball across and it didn't touch him. For some reason there's only one person that kept calling. We played two-and-a-half sets without that one person when they changed people, and then the same bloke came back again and I got done again”.

    Hewitt hopes he's seen the last of the man as he plays for a fourth-round spot against Italian Simone Bolelli.

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